Usage

Now in Maven Central Repository:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.cwbase</groupId>
  <artifactId>logback-redis-appender</artifactId>
  <version>1.1.6</version>
</dependency>

Configurable Options

Redis Related (RedisAppender Attributes)

key: (required) Redis Key to append the logs to
host: (optional, default: localhost) Redis Server Host
port: (optional, default: 6379) Redis Server Port
timeout: (optional, default: 2000) Redis connection timeout
password: (optional, default: no password) Redis connection password
database: (optional, default: 0) Redis database number

Event Related (JSONEventLayout Attributes)

source: (optional) Logstash Event [source] value
sourceHost: (optional, default: current hostname) Logstash Event [host] value
sourcePath: (optional) Logstash Event [path] value
tags: (optional) Comma-separated strings of Logstash [tags]
type: (optional) Logstash Event [type] value

Since 1.1.1 these fields support MDC property resolution by @{varname}.

Logback/Java Specific (JSONEventLayout Attributes)

mdc: (optional, default: false) Set to true if you want to log MDC properties
location: (optional, default: false) Set to true if you want to log the source file
callerStackIndex: (optional, default: 0) As location is determined by call stack, if you use some log wrapper, the location will always be the wrapper instead. Set it to 1 or higher to specify the particular call stack level

Note

Custom Layout

If you want to use other Layout (e.g. net.logstash.logback.layout.LogstashLayout) instead of our own JSONEventLayout, see the sample configuration below. (Since version 1.1.5)

Logging Asynchronously

As this appender would synchronously log to the Redis server, this may cause the logging thread to be hanged on some error conditions (network timeout or so). One resolution would be using the AsyncAppender provided by standard logback. Please refer to the below example configurations. (Thanks GuiSim for pointing this out)

Default values for MDC properties

MDC properties can be configured with default values by using the :- signifier. For example: @{varname:-foo} will result in foo if the varname property is not defined.

Example

Logback XML Configuration:

<appender name="LOGSTASH" class="com.cwbase.logback.RedisAppender">
    <source>mySource</source>
    <sourcePath>mySourcePath</sourcePath>
    <type>myApplication</type>
    <tags>production</tags>
    <host>192.168.56.10</host>
    <port>6379</port>
    <key>logstash</key>
</appender>

Logstash Configuration:

input {
 redis {
  codec => json
  host => "192.168.56.10"
  port => 6379
  key => "logstash"
  data_type => "list"
 }
}

Use with AsyncAppender:

<configuration>
  <appender name="LOGSTASH" class="com.cwbase.logback.RedisAppender">
    <source>mySource</source>
    <sourcePath>mySourcePath</sourcePath>
    <type>myApplication</type>
    <tags>production</tags>
    <host>192.168.56.10</host>
    <port>6379</port>
    <key>logstash</key>
  </appender>
  <appender name="ASYNC" class="ch.qos.logback.classic.AsyncAppender">
    <appender-ref ref="LOGSTASH" />
  </appender>
  <root level="DEBUG">
    <appender-ref ref="ASYNC" />
  </root>
</configuration>

Use Custom Layout:

<configuration>
  <appender name="LOGSTASH" class="com.cwbase.logback.RedisAppender">
    <!-- RedisAppender Attributes Here -->
    <host>192.168.56.10</host>
    <port>6379</port>
    <key>logstash</key>
    <!-- Use your own Custom Layout here -->
    <layout class="com.cwbase.logback.JSONEventLayout">
      <!-- JSONEventLayout Attributes Here -->
      <source>mySource</source>
      <sourcePath>mySourcePath</sourcePath>
      <type>myApplication</type>
      <tags>production</tags>
    </layout>
  </appender>
  <root level="DEBUG">
    <appender-ref ref="LOGSTASH" />
  </root>
</configuration>

ChangeLogs

Version 1.1.6 -> 1.1.5

Upgrade Jedis version to 3.1.0 and Logback to 1.2.3

Version 1.1.5 -> 1.1.4

Ability to set custom Layout (Thanks brynjargles suggestion)

Version 1.1.4 -> 1.1.2

Add support to provide additional fields to the JSON object sent to redis. (Thanks kevinvandervlist)
Fix MDC properties in additional fields. (Thanks kevinvandervlist)

Version 1.1.1 -> 1.1.2

Test the Redis Connection before borrow, see #9.

Version 1.1.0 -> 1.1.1

Implemented MDC property resolution by @{fieldname} in appender configuration. See #8.

Version 1.0.0 -> 1.1.0

Logstash has re-defined its JSON message format as [An event is simply a tuple of (timestamp, data).]

 {
   "@timestamp": "2013-02-09T20:39:26.234Z",
   "@version": "1",
   message: "hello world"
 }

This implies that the @-prefixed keys is not longer valid and allows a more flexible event data. The original mapping can be found at oldlogstashjson.rb file.

There is one unmapped field "@source". I will turn that into "source" field anyways.